Dr. Hunt Hawkins is currently a Professor in the Department of English and served as its Chair from 2006 - 2016. He earned a B.A. from Williams College, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is a Fulbright Distinguished Professor at Jagiellonian University in Kr …READ MORE

Darrell Slider

Professor
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar

Award Type:
AAU TARU Awarded: 2017

Darrell Slider did his undergraduate work at the University of Illinois and went on to obtain an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale. Since 1981 he has been Professor of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida (Tampa). …READ MORE

Jack Wilkins

Professor
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar

Award Type:
AAU TARU Awarded: 2017

Wilkins directs the USF Jazztet, which has performed at the at the invitation of some of the world's most prestigious jazz festivals including Italy's Umbria Jazz Festival and Tuscany Jazz Festival, Jazz a Juan and Jazz a Vienne in France, the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and the North Sea …READ MORE

David Jacobson

Professor
Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar

Award Type:
AAU TARU Awarded: 2017

David Jacobson is a Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida, and 2017-2018 Fulbright Research Fellow, and Visiting Fellow, at PRIO (Peace Research Institute of Oslo). Born in South Africa, he received his graduate training at the London School of Economics (MSc …READ MORE

Clifford Henderson

Professor
AAAS Fellow

Award Type:
AAU NRC Awarded: 2017

Dr. Clifford Henderson is currently Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering in the USF College of Engineering. His research broadly spans the intersection of chemical engineering, materials science, chemistry, and nanotechnology. For more than 20 …READ MORE

Mya Breitbart

Professor
AAAS Fellow

Award Type:
AAU NRC Awarded: 2017

Dr. Mya Breitbart is a Professor of Biological Oceanography in the USF College of Marine Science, and a leading pioneer in the field of viral metagenomics. She leads this rapidly growing field, publishing novel viral genomes from diverse hosts and environments. Her efforts have changed the way we vi …READ MORE

Jason Rohr

Professor
AAAS Fellow

Award Type:
AAU NRC Awarded: 2017

Dr. Jason Rohr is a Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. He is also affiliated with the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability and a courtesy faculty member of the USF Department of Global Health. Dr. Rohr uses transdisciplinary approaches to evaluate how infec …READ MORE

Jennifer Lewis

Professor
AAAS Fellow

Award Type:
AAU NRC Awarded: 2017

Dr. Jennifer Lewis is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Chemistry, and Director of the Center for the Improvement of Teaching & Research in Undergraduate STEM Education in the USF College of Arts and Sciences. Her area of specialization within chemistry is ed …READ MORE

Lynn Martin

Professor
AAAS Fellow

Award Type:
AAU NRC Awarded: 2017

Dr. Lynn B. Martin is Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology in the USF College of Arts and Sciences. He is recognized as both a pioneer and world leader in the field of ecological immunology and disease ecology. His current research focuses on how some species expand their ranges by stu …READ MORE

James Stock

Professor
AAAS Fellow

Award Type:
AAU NRC Awarded: 2017

Dr. James R. Stock is Distinguished University Professor and Frank Harvey Endowed Professor of Marketing in the USF Muma College of Business. In 2016-17, he also served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics at the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Stock is …READ MORE

Donald Keck

Professor
NAI Fellow

Award Type:
Others Awarded: 2017

Dr. Donald Keck is a professor in the USF Institute for Advanced Discovery and Innovation. He formerly was vice president and executive director of research at Corning, Inc. He has a BS, MS, and PhD in physics from Michigan State University (MSU). After graduating from MSU, he took a position at Cor …READ MORE

Dennis Killinger

Professor Emeritus
NAI Fellow

Award Type:
Others Awarded: 2017

Dr. Dennis K. Killinger, Ph.D. is a USF Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Physics and Director of the Lidar Remote Sensing Laboratory in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is also President and CEO of SenOptics, Inc., a developer of patented laser communication and Lidar technology. H …READ MORE

Faculty Honors, Prizes, and Awards

Awards bring prestige and recognition to the university and honor deserving scholars. They are not
only a recognition of faculty excellence, but also an important metric of institutional performance.
We are pleased to list on this site the University of South Florida faculty members with distinction
based on fellowships, prizes and awards recognized by the Association of American Universities (AAU),
Top American Research Universities (TARU), National Research Council (NRC), and other prestigious
national and international awards in different disciplines.